df showing invalid output

[Daniel Buggie]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 16:00 +0100, Anish Mathew wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am facing the following problem in my Redhat Linux
> 7.3 which runs on an HP Proliant Server having
> hardware raid.
> Kernel is 2.4.20-28.7smp.
> 
> I was having 1.4 GB free space in /opt.
> This is the ouput of df -h
> 
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p3     9.8G  7.9G  1.4G  85% /opt
> 
> I moved around 7.5 GB of data from /opt
> 
> But the df -h output is not giving the correct
> available space. 
> it gives 
> 
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p3     9.8G  5.7G  3.7G  61% /opt
> 
> The used space should be around 1.4.. why is this
> descrepancy... 
> 
> Also i tried copying moved files back to /opt. But
> after 4Gb copying failed stating no space left on
> device.
> 
> any comments appreciated.


Without knowing what commands you ran to move the files and the innards
of your filesystems, I'd have to go on the assumption that df is right
and files are still there.

What does du -k /opt show?

Daniel